Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.

According to Joss [Whedon], “TV is a question, movies are an answer.

man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war.

I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Britain possesses no climate, only weather.

The birth of my sons. The birth of new emotions...what a privilege. What a blessing.

My God, the man is a fascist - a fascist, I tell you.

I was always the squarest person in the cool room, and alternatively, sometimes the weirder person at the mainstream table.

I don't like to have the federal government start pushing its weight deeper and deeper into our schools. Let the states and localities do that.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.